livus

livus, 28 days ago

From the article:

The risk of famine is here, the risk of famine is real, but there is a window of opportunity to act,” said Paulsen. “Farmers need to be preparing their land now already, in April, seeds have to get in the ground in June. One thing is clear – if we have a main cereal cropping season that is compromised or that is not successful, we know that there is going to be a much worse situation coming in the months ahead.”

Paulsen said more funding and ensuring farmers could access their land was crucial to avoiding famine. He added that while food aid provided directly to people was still urgently needed, supporting locally produced food would be most cost-efficient and sustainable.

The FAO report said the conflict had restricted access to farmland and movement for livestock, as well as destroying infrastructure, leading to disruption of the production of key grains such as sorghum and millet, forcing Sudan to rely heavily on imported food.

Paulsen said food production fell 46% last year and hunger was worst in areas where the conflict was most intense, such as Darfur and Al Jazirah, which is often considered Sudan’s bread basket.

Former Sudanese prime minister Abdalla Hamdok told the Guardian the country is facing a “catastrophic situation” with more than 10 million people either displaced internally or made refugees in neighbouring countries.

“The most serious situation is the plight of 25 million people – more than half the population – subjected to starvation. People are dying of hunger, a lack of food and medicine, more than bullets. The situation is very bad,” said Hamdok...

livus, 28 days ago

It isn't even necessarily "leftist" content, it's just access to the lives of other gen Z in other parts of the world without boomer media spin.

I'm only on a nonpolitical part of tiktok but you still see stuff like people's cats in Gaza if you follow cat videos, and so on.

livus, 28 days ago

Well, if it leaves the US I will miss Anthony Hopkins and also the videos Martin Scorsese's daughter makes of her dad.

livus, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago)

I don't want to no true scotsman you, but your friend appears to have a really, really poor understanding of what karma is.

Edit: sorry, that was flippant.

Leaving that aside, just from the perspective of logic, basically youre saying if people deserve violence for past acts of violence then why not carry out more violence on them thus causing yourself to also deserve violence for past violence.

Like, why would you?

livus, 29 days ago

Bodhisattva option is the only right option.

That's why I can't Buddhist.

livus, 28 days ago

In that case, I guess it's important to avoid Nirvana if you're a layperson.

livus, 28 days ago

Wear nirvanablock.

livus, 29 days ago

No thanks. OP's link is to the UN official news site. It quotes info from Ravina Shamdasani, who is the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. 

In my experience OHCHR are pretty careful to get their facts right; they don't just spout off over hearsay. There are plenty of observers they can call on.

I would take their report over musings by a random twitteX account any day.

livus, 28 days ago

It's not at all "odd" for journalists' reportage on events to come out before the UN issues a formal statement on them.

This happens quite often in relation to conflicts. It doesn't indicate some kind of conspiracy.

Like I said, OHCHR are very measured in their assessment of facts. Some delay is quite understandable.

livus, 28 days ago

What’s the relevance?

If a company signs a public pledge and then breaks it, that's worth knowing about.

livus, 29 days ago

Exactly.

One day it will involve fediverse. So enjoy it here for here now, where the only spam we face is the black market prescription drugs spammers on kbin, and people pushing their own news blogs.

livus, 29 days ago

Probably.

livus, 29 days ago

To be honest the first time I watched S1, I sort of read him as more of a deuteragonist, he's so ridiculous. I only really warmed to him once Poppy does.

There are so many characters with preposterous personalities - him, CW, Brad... for me Poppy's trajectory is the A plot and the testers are the main B plot.

That doesn't mean it's what the writers necessarily intended, though.

livus, 28 days ago

Never did get a reply but I've worked it out. It's someone using software to replace specific phrases in existing news articles so that they are no longer an exact match.

They're close paraphrases but sometimes the meaning is changed. Reddit used to have bots that did this to avoid detection when reposting comments.

Had to ban the person anyway for breaking sub rules, but I think we should probably treat "infoterkiniviral" as blog spam.

Example: here is their rewrite, and here is the original.